The ultimate reality of who we are
Even if the world is materialistic and increasingly so, reality remains spiritual and eternally so. Sometimes when we see how materialistic the world is becoming, [...]
Even if the world is materialistic and increasingly so, reality remains spiritual and eternally so. Sometimes when we see how materialistic the world is becoming, [...]
If we make everything negotiable, then we ourselves end up becoming negotiable. Life often requires negotiations, but if we don't have anything that is non-negotiable, [...]
If we can take a hard line on one thing, then we can take a hard line on other things too. We all sometimes feel [...]
The price of self-transformation is the readiness to be hard on ourselves. We all have traits about us that we know are harmful for us. [...]
The intelligence that entertains indiscriminate indulgence is bad. The intelligence that endorses such indulgence is worse. And the intelligence that espouses such indulgence is the [...]
The absence of ability is excusable. The absence of will isn't. Whenever something important is to be done, if someone is not able to do [...]
The difference between lack of ability and lack of will is found in situations of necessity, even emergency. When someone says that they can't do [...]
The point of celebrating is not escaping from work, but it is escaping to a more fulfilling kind of work. Whenever we celebrate success, we [...]
To be naive is bad but so is to be cynical, better to be intelligent. When we are interacting with people, we can be naive [...]
What some people offer as a compliment, others take as an insult. Generally speaking, when we compliment someone, we expect that person to be happy [...]
What is sensible and what feels desirable are frequently not the same thing – and intelligence means to value the desirable more than the desirable. [...]
We are happy to see some people go and we are happy to see that some people never go. In our lives, we often have [...]
What people find surprising tells us not just about the surprise but also about the people. When we interact with people, we often want to [...]
There are two kinds of people: people who never disappoint and people who never fail to disappoint. There are some people who always stay true [...]
When we are attached to worldly things, we can never have enough of them. No matter how much we crave and how much we slave, [...]
Patriotism is not meant to make us into cannon fodder at the summons of the power hungry. It is meant to inspire us to dedicate [...]
How we respond to bad news reflects not just how bad the news is but also how bad our view of the world is. Whenever [...]
Whenever we don't get something that our mind is infatuated with, we often find ourselves in a foul mood, where we devalue or even detest [...]
We are often taught that freedom is the right to pursue what we want. But is that definition of freedom complete? What if the things [...]
When we take an issue further than it needs to go, then we are making the issue: the issue is not making itself. Sometimes when [...]
Whenever we battle against a temptation, we often define boundaries to protect ourselves, as the Bhagavad Gita (3.41) recommends. But there exists inside us an [...]